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F. de FUNIKK, President, * • , - sº Louisville, Ky.
HENRY SHAW, Vice-President AND SUP’t, - - - New Orleans.
J. F. MASON, SECRETARY, - & * * tº New Orleans.
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—DIRECTORS.–
THOS. L. AIREY, JOS. H. OGLESBY,
VICTOR MEYER, ALEX. T. JANIN,
F. de FUNIAK, HENRY shaw. &
New orleans:
GARCIA & FAUCHE, PRINTERS, 56 CAMP STREET.
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THE NEW ORLEANS ELEVATED RAILWAY CO.
The object of this enterprise is to furnish a complete systew of
TERMINAL FACILITIES, freight and passenger, to all railroads now termi- "
nating in this city, as well as all that may hereafter be built. &
Its construction will give equally to all railroads, rapid, convenient
and safe access to the river front, the shipping and Steamboats, and to the
business centres of the city. *
It will render unnecessary the occupation of the streets of the city,
and the Levee, for surface tracks; and its nse will at once Double the avail.
able space and capacity of every Railroad Freight Depot in the city, as well as
vastly facilitate the handling of both through and local freight. [See plates
I and II]. -
All railroads coming to New Orleans must not only get to the river
front, but they must have direct access to all parts of it. This is necessary
for connection with the long line of shipping wharves, and the transfer,
receipt and delivery of both through and local traffic. And it is now im-
possible, except by the use of each others tracks, and the general business
both of railroads and the city herself, is increasing so rapidly that even this
joint use of surface tracks will soon become impracticable.
The Elevated Railway therefore, providing as it will, ample main and
side tracks above the surface, by which all present and future railroads can,
with convenience, speed and economy, obtain this access—is needed now. ... "
Had a Terminal System such as this, been applied in the beginning of
their railroad life to the other large cities of the country, such as New York,
Chicago and Cincinnati, many millions of dollars would have been saved to
the railroads who have already secured their individual terminals, and many
more to those which now and in the future can only gain an entrance over
the tracks of the first comers. * #
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* Philadelphia has secured for the majority of her railroad business—
such an elevated terminal system for both freight and passenger traffic.
Louisville is now building her Elevated Short Route Transfer Railway.
Pittsburgh is now organizing an elevated Terminal System, which will
concentrate, on elevated tracks, all her railroads.
In Rochester, N. Y., the New York Central R. R., has elevated its
tracks so as to pass over the crowded streets of the city. . * *
Many cities of Europe, notably London and Bristol, Eng., and Vienna,
Austria, have adopted elevated tººks and depots. #
In all these cities the cost of construction was immensely increased .
by the necessity of purchasing rights of way and real estate.
The Elevated Railway in New Orleaus can be built, mnder the fran-
chises of the Company, for simply the cost of construction ; the right of way
"is granted and secured over city property and no real estate need be
purchased. . * * t * * *
- . To all who are conversant with the present condition of the freight.
traffic and transfer to and through the city of New Orleans, it is apparent
that there is not only an urgent need for more room and better facilities than
are now available, but that, any further increase in the transfer, receiving
and reshipping of general merchandise, will be almost impossible without a
* corresponding increase both in the levee space and in the facilities,for rapid “
and convenient transfer and delivery.
The success of the Jetties, which has secured for New Orleans the
finest harbor South of New York, the enormous increase in grain tranship-
ment by the river, the rapid building of the great railway systems towards
New Orleans as their deep water terminus, the development of Mexican and
South American trade, all point to an early and vast increase of business,
which will demand [and must have] space'and facilities for proper handling.
* , But under the existing order of things there are no means by which
this business can be met and handled with the cheapness, rapidity and con-
venience demanded by the requirements of modern commerce.
The narrow strip of river front of New Orleans, known as “the levee,”
is and must always be the most natural and convenient delivering, receiving
and reshipping ground for all merchandise coming to, going from, or passing
through the city. *
Miles of double and triple rows of steamships and sailing vessels with
yaried cargoes from every port on the globe; steamboats with immense :
loads of cotton, sugar and Western produce; barge lines with grain, coal
boats and flatboats innumerableline this bank, discharging and reloading oi
this small strip of levee space, crowded, hampered and inconvenienced in :
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Millions of tons of merchandise are annually unloaded and reloaded on this
open levee with no protection from the weather other than by tarpaulins,
and all handled with great difficulty and unnecessary expense and delay,
owing to the crowded condition of the only available place.
And yet we find, narrow as this strip is, and entirely inadequate even
for the present wants of the steamboat and shipping interests [to say noth-
ing of an increase in their wants by the increase of their business, which is
sure to come], a large proportion of it is already taken up, and much more
is asked for by the great lines of railways now making this city their ocean
terminus. *
Two railroad companies, the Louisville & Nashville and the Morgan's
La. & Texas, have main and side tracks on this levee, forcing, with difficulty
and inconyenience, their trains through the masses of cotton, grain, sugar
and other merchandise, interrupting and harassing the shipping, draying
and general mercantile interests to an extent which causes serious trouble
and expense to all concerned.
. In addition to these tracks already laid down and in constant and
crowded use, all the other great systems of railways now entering the city,
must in some way get access to the shipping along the river. 4. 3.
The traffic of the roads now occupying the levee is rapidly increasing;
the foreign shipping and the grain, coal,'cotton and sugar business, by steam-
boats and barges, is annually multiplying itself; the new railway systems
just completed will shortly bring an additional enormous increase, and it
must be evident that it will be utterly impossible to accommodate such a
traffic under the present conditions. • .
There is but one practical remedy for this difficulty, and while a
remedy for the existing troubles, it is at the same time certain to prove a
most important factor in the future prosperity of our city, as well as a very
profitable and remunerative investment for its owners. •
The New Orleans Elevated Railway Company, organized and acting i
under authority of its State and city charters—copies of which are appended
hereto-propose to build an elevated railway—all iron—having two main
tracks and the necessary side tracks and switches for reaching every portion
of the wharves and shipping, and for connection with the various surface.
railways and their depots, along the entire river front of the city, from the
lower to the upper limits.
Under the city ordinance granting the franchise, the Company has the
right to begin the construction of the road at or below Press street [the river,
terminus of the Northeastern R. R.] and continue up to Louisiana Avenue.
This portion is to be completed within three years, and it will inter-
sect all the surface roads now built and in course of construction.
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The remaining portion, that is, the two ends, from Press street to the
lower limits, and from Louisiana Avenue to the upper limits of the city, can
be added any tiime within three additional years.
The Company has authority to arrange, upon reasonable and proper
terms, with all surface roads for the use of the elevated tracks for both
freight and passenger trains. g
The construction of this elevated railway and its use will at once, not
only cure all the evils from which our transfer and shipping interests are
now suffering, but it will at the same time provide for an unlimited increase
of their business, as well as afford the most rapid, convenient and inexpen-
sive facilities for its handling.
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In connection with the elevated railway, and as a necessary part of it,
the Company has submitted an application to the City Council for the right
to erect near the head of Canal street an Elevated Union Passenger Depot
for the use of all surface roads. - *
As the elevated railway will intersect the track of every surface rail- §
road, all passenger trains in and out can be conveniently brought to or
started from this Elevated Union Depot.
This depot will be erected on the level of the elevated tracks, so that
in addition to all the modern conveniences and facilities of surface depots,
street car and carriage stands can be accommodated underneath.
None of the railroads now terminating in this city have a passenger
depot worthy of the name, and their passenger termini are with one excep-
tion located at a great distance from the business centre of the city.
The location of a Grand Elevated Union Depot near the head of Canal
street, and directly alongside the Post Office, from which point all the tracks
of the city street railways radiate to every part of the city, with the great
acilities it will offer for both local and through passenger traffic, will be an
inestimable advantage to all the surface railroads, and it is confidently be.
lieved that for this purpose alone the entire cost of the Elevated Railway
structure will be highly remunerative.
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NEW ORLEANs, April 25th, 1883.
To Henry Shaw, Esq., President, -
New Orleans Elevated Railway Company, New Orleans.
DEAR SIR:
In reply to your request to give an expression of my views on the
feasibility of constructing and the necessity of an Elevated Railway along
our river front, I agreeably state:
1st. That which has been accomplished elsewhere can certainly be
accomplished here.
. To here obtain the needed foundation should not cost more than one-
half that of the New York Elevated Companies, for those companies, while
excavating, encountered many obstacles, such as solid rock which required ,
blasting, water and gas pipes which would not admit of disturbance, Conse-,
quently compelled building under, around and over them, thereby necessi.
tating both slow and costly work. As no such obstacles are along our river
front it will only be a question of how many piles can your company drive in
a given time through a washed formation soil and a heavy and very tena-
cious blue clay which is the best that could be wished by anybody for any
kind of foundation. -
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2d. The necessity of such a road is great and I can say in support of
this, that during the last few years five [5] Railway Companies—Chicago,
St. Louis and New Orleans, New Orleans Pacific, Northeastern, Lake Borgne
and Terre-aux-Boeuf and the Mississippi Valley—have expressed a desire to
have, and have called on me to find, surface room for them on our river
front. My reply has been to one and all, “there is no room on the public
domain, you will have to purchase property;” this some of them have
attempted and found the fronting property too costly. *
An elevated roadway is the only means by which the five companies
above named and others which may terminate here will obtain full accommo-
dation on our shipping front. I have been in consultation with your engi-
neers, Messrs. Harrod & Richardson, and believe their report to you to be
very full and fair. 4. " *
We have no Union Depot which is also much needed, and I am of the
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opinion if we ever obtain one it will be when your Elevated Railway is con-
structed. You will have the position, as none other in our whole city will so
readily and perfectly answer for it, as the junction of Canal street and the
Mississippi river, for there all the steamboats stop that come to our city, all
of our horse car lines stop there or near there, and right there is the U. S.
Customhouse and Postoffice; everything centres there. I heartily welcome
the construction. +
Very respectfully,
D. M. BROSNAN,
City Surveyor.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCEIANGE.
November 28th, 1883.
Extract from Annual Report of the Committee on Transportation.
, “ In compliance with instructions from your board, based upon a request
from the President of the New Orleans Elgvated Railway Company, your
committee investigated that project and its probable advantages to the
commerce of New Orleans, and, after thorough consideration, report that in
their opinion it is worthy of the confidence and support of this city and
trade. The crowded condition of our landings, and the fact that new corpo-
rations are endeavoring to obtain privileges similar to those possessed by
their predecessors, indicates that the space on our levee front is insufficient
to accommodate our increasing trade unless some method be devised to
relieve it.” +
*k, “Your committee are of opinion that the Elevated Railway is the most
feasible source of relief, and backed, as they are assúred it will be, by large
capital from abroad, the company guarantees such a structure as will enable
it to fully carry out the promises of the projectors to handle the bulk of pro-
duce brought to our city by rail, and leave a clear front for the movement of
Tsurplus products.”
“Respectfully submitted,
“AD. MEYER,
“ Chairman.”
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buildings and one open platform, separated by cross streets.
Total Platform Area, 75,000 sqr. ft.
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1st Floor, platform area, - - 114,400 sqr. ft.
2d Floor, 44 44 - - 76,600 “ “
Total Platform Area, 191,000 sqr. ft.
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THE NEW ORLEANS ELEWATFD RAILWAY COMPANY. 9
MECHANICS', DEALERS AND LUMBERMEN'S EXCHANGE.
NEW ORLEANs, Nov. 30, 1883.
Report of the Committee on Elevated Railway.
To the Board of Directors of the
Mechanics', Dealers' and Lumbermen's Exchange, New Orleans :
GRNTLEMEN:
The committee appointed during the past month to examine into and
investigate the plans for the proposed Elevated Railway on the river front
and report upon the feasibility and probable benefit that will arise from said
enterprise have given much attention to your expressed wishes and respect-
fully sum up the results of their enquiries and investigation as follows, viz.:
We believe that with sufficient capital an Elevated Railway such as
suggested can be successfully constructed and the benefits that would neces-
sarily arise from the operations of such a railroad on our already crowded
“river front would include not only a greater facility for handling freight on
the levee, but be an important step towards making this city the commercial
depot it should be, and hasten the end it must eventually reach as a shipping .
port. We consider it will be a powerful auxiliary in the cheap and hasty
handling of freight. *
* Considered as a method by which a Union passenger depot may be
established, we not only think it feasible, but the most economical way, so
far as the city at large is concerned, by which such a desired end may be
attained, and it is more evident each year of late, that unless some action is
taken, our city with six [6] trunk roads entering her limits, will have no two
depots so located, that a ready transfer may be made and valuable streets
will be monopolized by numerous trains of cars. We know that depots such
as the Elevated lèailroad promises, are located in other cities and have inet
the demands of the people in those localities, and we see no reason why such
a method would not be satisfactory here.
Trusting that the labors of this committee and its decision may meet
with your approval,
We are, obediently, etc.,
T. HASAYſ,
A. MARTIN,
ALF. PIERSON.

1O THE NEW ORLEANS ELEWATED RAILWAY COMPANY.
NEW ORLEANS PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
New ORLEANs, January 12, 1884.
Report on the Elevated Railway.
Mr. E. K. Converse,
President New Orleans Produce Exchange,
SIR :
Your committee appointed at the invitation of the New Orleans
Elevated Railway Company, beg to report that they have examined and well
considered this new enterprise, which for practicability and progressiveness
commends itself at once to the intelligence of your honorable body. There
are now three great lines of surface railroads along our levee front, and with
their long trains of freight cars, delaying vehicles and teams laden with pro-
duce of the great Mississippi, are assisting to keep the levee in an over-
crowded condition. Three new lines are now asking, with justice too, the
same levee privileges, which, when obtained, will add to the embarrassment.
This Elevated Railway Company will overcome all this. Being at an eleva-
tion of eighteen feet above the surface of the ground, it will give an open
way at all times to vehicles and pedestrians, without the usual risk of danger.
We think further, it will add greatly to the terminal facilities of the port in
the matter of rapid transit, and lessening of charges, and we believe it is a
necessity to the commerce of this great export city.
Very respectfully,
WM. F. TUTT, Chairman.
GEO. E. SEARS,
L. H. FAIRCHILD.
Committee.

THE NEW ORLEANS ELEWATED RAILWAY COMPANY. 11
OPERATION.
The following general plan of operating the Elevated Railway Com-
pany—subject to such modifications as circumstances may dictate, will be
adopted :
1st. The Elevated Railway Company proposes to operate the elevated
road itself, with its own locomotives [except passenger engines], and under
its own supervision and train-dispatching. -
2d. Each surface railroad will deliver to the Elevated Railway, all
local and through freight cars at the incline sidings, especially designated
for each road, make report of numbers, initials and destination of cars to
Elevated Railway Company, when they will be at once taken and distributed
by the engines of the Elevated Railway. *.
3d. All the placing and switching of cars on the Elevated Railway,
at all warehouses, wharves, levee sheds, depots, etc., for freight business,
will be done by the Elevated Railway Company, and no freight engiue of any
railroad will be permitted to do work on the Elevated road. '
4th. The Elevated Railway Company will be responsible to the other
organizations and railroad companies, for the prompt switching and placing
of loaded and unloaded cars, and prompt through delivery of all freight cars,
and all will be served with equal dispatch and promptness, so as to avoid
the slightest ground for complaints of partiality.
5th. The passenger business will be operated as follows:
One track will be set apart for the passenger business, and each
passenger train as it enters the city will be taken by its own engine over the
incline and elevated railway, directly to the Union depot on Canal Street.
After discharging its passengers, express, baggage and mail, the same
engine will take the empty coaches back to its own yard.
6th. The same plan will be adopted by out-going trains. Each rail.
road will send its own line engine and coaches in a complete train over the
inclines and elevated railway, to the Union depot, thirty minutes before train
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going on the Elevated Railway, before entering the inclines, will report to
the train dispatcher at the Union depot for orders, and while on the Elevated
Railway, all train men of all railroads will be under the orders and control
of the train master or train dispatcher of the Elevated Railway Company.
For the safety of all moving trains and engines on the Elevated Rail-
way, a perfect system öf blocks by electric signals will be established at all
necessary points, such as curves, stations, etc.; and all theinclines for reach.
ing the Elevated lèailway, will be so constructed for each road entering the
city, as that the grade on the inclines will correspond with the maximum
grade on each road, so that each arriving passenger engine can take its own
train without delay, over the Elevated Railway to the Union depot. Double
Y tracks at the foot of Canal Street, will give access from the Elevated IRail-
way on the levee to the Union depot—as shown on map—thus enabling all
incoming passenger trains to back into the depot, and all outgoing trains to
pull directly out in whatever direction required to go, so that while their
trains are in the depot, all engines will stand at the outer end of the shed.
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THE NEW ORLEANS ELEWATED RAILWAY COMPANY. 13
ENGINEERS’ REPORT
ON THE ELEVATED TERMINAL FACILITIES OF THE PENN-
SYIVANIA R. R. AT PHILADELPHIA.
NEW ORLEANs, Dec. 29, 1883.
F. de FUNIAK, Esq.,
President N. O. Elevated Railway Co.:
SIR, -
We have the honor to report as follows, on the Hydraulic Freight
Lifting Plant in the Broad St., Depot of the Pennsylvania R. R., Philadelphia.
This plant consists of four boilers and two Cameron pumps, 180 horse
power, with a pressure of 250 pounds, operating:
14 Freight Lifts.
4 Express “
4 Baggage “
2 Passenger “
1 Mail $é
25 & 4
There are also two Accumulators. The boilers also furnish steam for
heating the Depot Building and Offices. Four are used in winter and
three in summer. The consumption of coal is about 10 tons [Anthracite]
every 12 hours. Three men suffice for the care of the entire machinery, viz:
an engineer, fireman, and general service and watchman.
The Lifts, or Elevators, are simply hydraulic jacks erected along a
double line of pipe, one arm of which is a supply main from the pumps, and
the other a discharge into the tank. The Lifts are connected with the pipes
by 24” branches, and three way cocks. All lifts, pipes and connections are
of wrought iron, lap-welded, with heavy fittings. The patent for the Lifts
covers a water tight slide joint, and the prevention of shock or jar at the
end of the stroke. Both these objects seem to be thoroughly attained. The
supply and discharge pipes range from 7” to 5" in diameter.
The supply of water is drawn into a tank of about 2000 gallons capa-
city, from the city water works, but the plant is independent of the pressure
from that source. The same water is used repeatedly, with loss only from
evaporation and leakage. Fifty to sixty gallons are required for each charge
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The Accumulators are simply jacks, with a longer stroke, and a per-
manent load to equalize pressure. The pipes are in lengths, telescoping.
At the upper part of the stroke they engage with an arm, working a cut-off
lever at the pumps.
The Lifts are fitted with guides and platforms of economical and
serviceable design. They are 8 ft. square. The capacity constantly employed
is three tons per Lift, but, as will be seen from the figures of piston and
pressure given above, they have a power of [(7.5" x.7854 x 250)—friction and
weight of platform) about five tons. The speed, as gauged by us, is 15" up,
and 13" down, the height being 21 feet.
The arrangement of the freight department of the depot is as fol-
lows: There are four tracks, having an aggregate capacity
of 38 cars. Down the middle of each platform is a row of 7
Lifts, about 32 feet from centres. The yardmaster suggests that this
distance as well as the width of the platform, might be increased. A slide
or chute is provided for iron, rod, bar or rail, and similar freight.
As regards capacity for work, it may be stated that the fourteen
freight elevators of this plant, readily load and unload 120 cars per day of 12
hours, or about two thousand tons. Our observation is that this limit
is placed by the supply of loaded and removal of empty cars in the insuffi-
cient depot and track room above. It will be observed that to accomplish
the above work there must be an entire change of cars every four hours.
The number of Lifts [fourteen], is required to meet this condition, and not by
the amount of freight handled. An examination of the capacity of a single
Lift will establish this point. It is the opinion of the yardmaster that a Lift
platform can be loaded or unloaded in two minutes. Allowing double this
time, and half the observed rate of speed, a round trip could be made in nine
minutes. This gives 20 tons per hour or 240 tons for each Lift, and 3300
tons per day of twelve hours for the fourteen. We believe that with the
large and well shaped depot areas possessed by most of the roads in this city,
under well devised management, this limit could certainly be reached. It
may here be stated that a car load of flour of 125 bbls. has been unloaded
and tiered up on the lower floor in eight minutes, involving five trips of the
Lifts, with 25 bbls. each.
The cost of operation per day, may be estimated as follows:
10 tons Anthracite coal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $95 00
3 Men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800
Interest, 5 per cent. on $60,000.... ....... 8 33
Maintenance................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
$119 66
Of this not more than two-thirds is for the freight department as above
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described—therefore cost of lifting 2000 tons, say $80, or about 4 cents per
ton. *
The labor required for these Lifts would be seven gangs of twelve men
each, costing about $126, or between 6 or 7 cents additional per ton—giv-
ing a total of 10 to 11 cents per ton for receiving and loading, or the reverse.
It was the opinion of the yardmaster that the cost of labor of freight
handlers was increased one-quarter over the cost when the tracks were on
the surface, but that this was much more than coln pensated by the increase
of room and convenience. A gang of four men above and eight men below,
serve two Lifts. It is our opinion that this double force is largely the result of
local inconvenience in the Pennsylvania depot. While the freight Department
below occupies the entire width of the building, it has only four tracks above
out of twelve. Hence the length of the hand movement of freight on one
side is extreme, being the distance under the space occupied by eight
passenger tracks, or considerably over one hundred feet.
The arrangements of the Dock Street station of the Pennsylvania R.
R., are substantially the same, with this exception: The depot is at the foot
of a hill. The road enters on the surface, from which the incoming freight
is delivered on an upper floor. This is connected with a higher grade of the
hill on an adjoining street, parallel to Dock Street, by a bridge, over which
teams enter the upper floor of the depot.
This system has here been adopted, simply to secure more depot room.
In estimating the cost of a plant in New Orleans, we may assume 16
Lifts as required. Under this assumption, we give the following figures.
Boilers $3000, Pumps $3000.................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 6,000
Main pipe, supply and discharge, 2000' feet, 5" to 7" diameter, heavy
fittings ........ • * * * * * * * * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000
, Elevators $8000, Connections $500............ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,500
Platforms $2400, Accumulator $600 ................'.............. 8,000
3. $21,000
To this must be added foundations, erections, guides, and cistern, which
would bring the total to $25,600 or $1,600 per lift.
The features of a plant peculiar to this locality would be —
1st. Bain water tank, supplied from roof.
2nd. Pipes laid between platform and ground.
3rd. Telescoping Lifts to avoid excavation.
Respectfully,
B. M. HARROD.
H. B. RICHARDSON.

16 THE NEW ORLEANS ELEWATED RAILWAY COMPANY.
OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEERS :
N. O. ELEVATED RAILWAY CO.
NEW ORLEANs, January 8, 1884.
To the President and Board of Directors of the
*::: New Orleans Elevated Railway Co. :
GENTLEMEN,
We have the honor to report the following relative to the location pro-
posed for that part of your line between Independence Street and Louisiana
Avenue, with our conclusions and recommendations regarding the connec-
tions to be made with the lines of the existing railroads:
Detailed surveys of the levee and adjacent streets and properties from
Independence Street to Louisiana Avenue, have been completed, and fifteen
maps prepared ºn which are shown the proposed location of the main line of
the Elevated Railway, as approved by the City Surveyor. " -
The line followed is generally as near the river bank as possible, its
proximity being only limited by considerations of safety and stability.
The two main tracks will—for the greater part of the line—be suppli-
mented by two other side-tracks, making the structure in effect a four-track
road. *
The iron columns supporting the Elevated Railway and sidings will
be generally not closer together than forty feet along the line of the railway,
and twenty-two feet tranversely, thus giving ample room for the passage of
drays, floats or other vehicles between them in all directions. The clear
headway under the girders must—by the terms of the City ordinance grant-
ing the right to construct the Elevated Railway, be eighteen feet wherever
surface rails are crossed, and it will be, everywhere sufficient not to obstruct
traffic on the streets or levee.
The general surface, or grade, of the Elevated Railway, will be very
nearly level, and on the main line there need be no curves of shorter radius
than one thousand feet. º
Specifications heretofore submitted describe the general character and
details of the structure proposed. * -
Connections with the six principal railroads now entering the city will
* [See Map.]. It is proposed to proceed with the construction of this part of the line
at once. The franchises of the Elevated Railway Company extend throughout the city.
limits—a distance of about seven uniles.
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be made by means of inclines, not materially differing from other parts of
the track. It is proposed to locate these inclined tracks as follows viz:
1. For the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad, and for the
Mississippi Valley Railroad, on the neutral ground of Louisiana Avenue.
2. For the Texas and Pacific Railway, running alongside their pres-
ent freight depot—the foot of the incline being near the upper, or South end
of the depot. (See Plate W.]
3. For the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, on the neutral ground
of Elysian Fields street; and, to connect with their yard between Julia and
Delord streets, descending from near Girod street through the edge of the
present freight depot, to a convenient point connecting with the tracks in
their yard on the east side of Pilie street. *
4. For the Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, ascending from
the surface near Elysian Fields street and running on the side of the
main line of the Elevated Road. -
5. For the New Orleans and North Eastern Railroad, along Press
street, or on the Company's property on either side of the street, as may be
most convenient for them. *
The connection with the proposed Union Passenger Depot on Canal
Street will be made by branch tracks from both up and döwn the line; and
suitable branches will connect with the proposed Elevated Freight Depots
for Morgan's and the Louisville and Nashville Railroads.
Sketches have been prepared showing the proposed arrangements for
connecting with the several existing roads, which are on file in this office;
but we suggest special attention to those accompanying this report, which
show the present freight depots of the Morgan's La. and T. R. R. Co. be-
tween Poydras and Notre Dame streets, with the changes proposed for con-
necting them with the through tracks of the Elevated Railway. (See Plates
I. and II.] Also proposed application of the Elevated System to the L. & N.
R. R. Freight Depots. [See Plate IV.] *
These depots are considered typical as regards the difficulties to be
overcome in bringing the Elevated Road into convenient connection with
the existing terminal stations of the roads now entering the city; and are
therefore selected as examples to illustrate the general plan proposed
where space may be wanting for inclines suited to the passage of unbroken
trains. -
. The present arrangements of the Morgan's L. & T. R. B. are shown in
Figure 1. of Plate I. and Figure 1. of Plate II, and require little description. .
They show platforms and sheds on five different squares of ground sep-
arated by four streets, and having standing-room for the trains not exceeding
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370 feet in length. The gross area of platforms is about 115,000 square feet-
of which only about 53,000 square feet is under roof.
The proposed changes for connecting with the Elevated Road are #
outlined in Figure 2 of Plate I and Figure 2 of Plate II. They contemplate
to continuous tracks and platforms under roof, extending from Poydras street
Notre Dame street, raised about twenty-three feet above the present tracks
and platforms, and connected with the main line of the Elevated Railway by
a double track structure some 475 feet long.
The present platforms, or their equivalent are to be retained and ex-
tended over the entire area of the square occupied by the existing depots, or
the same spaces paved, in whole or in part, with some solid and enduring
pavement. *
The lower and upper platforms are to be connected by Hydraulic Lifts,
sufficient in number and power to conveniently and rapidly handle all freight,
and if required, having capacity to carry loaded cars from one level to the
other. &
With the proposed arrangement there would be standing-room for
unbroken trains over a thousand feet in length, and an area of platform above
and below of about 191,000 square feet. This increase of platform space is
obtained without counting in the “Sugar platforms” on the west side of
Delta street. But it is, of course, entirely practicable to extend the upper
platform across Delta street and over the existing “Sugar platforms,” which
would add about 60,000 square feet to the figures above stated. But these
sketches and estimates of area do not include such extension.
There has been no attempt to thoroughly work out the details of con-
struction in the sketches submitted : the general plan only is indicated. It
is obvious that the materials and details of the required structures might be
varied at will, with the same practical result except as to cost and dura-
bility. *:
We advise that the connection with the through tracks of the Elevated
Railway be of similar construction to the main line, at least up to the line of the
property owned by the Morgan's Company, and that the tracks and platforms
of the upper floor be carried across Lafayette and Girod streets on iron girders
supported by iron columns at about the line of the banquettes. The remainder
of the structure might be mostly of wood, though if the additional cost is
not considered too great, a system of iron columns and girders as shown in
the sketches would secure a considerably larger area of clear space on the
ground floor—and, indeed, a good amount of standing-room for cars to be
transferred as required to the upper level, either by a vertical lift, or by a
, short incline and traction cable, worked from the same source of power as
the other elevators. . . *

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THE NEW ORLEANS ELEVATED IRAILWAY COMPANY." 19
But the character of structure shown in the sketches is perhaps as
simple and inexpensive as, under the circumstances, will be desired: In this
design the tracks, four in number, are intended to be carried on iron girders,
transverse and longitudinal, with supporting columns of iron or wood not
closer together than 18 or 20 feet and with suitable pile foundations, while
the platforms are carried on wooden beams and floor joists with posts at
similar intervals: The brick walls now existing, and the roof frames be-
tween Lafayette and Girod streets would be utilized as far as practicable :
The walls would be carried higher than at present in brick, or framed up and
covered with metal, and new walls built where required. But the tracks and
upper platforms would be supported independently of the present walls. At
suitable intervals along the platforms on both sides, and at convenient dis-
tances from the car doors, it is proposed to place twenty or more Hydraulic
Lifts with capacity to raise from three to five tons each, on moving platforms,
about eight feet square, constructed and operated generally in a manner sim-
ilar to those in use at the Broad street depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad
in Philadelphia, as described in our report of Dec. 29th, ult.
Should it be desired to transfer cars between the upper and lower
floors, one or more of the lifts may be of sufficient size and power to
carry car and load.
We have not indicated a site for the boilers and pumps required, 8,8
this and many other matters of detail may perhaps more properly depend
upon the wishessand convenience of the Morgan's Company than upon any
other consideration. We suggest, however, that it is probable the boilers and
pumps may be so located as to be available for operating lifts not only in
these depots but also in the Louisville & Nashville freight depots, and per-
haps at other points along the line. * *
Ieaving out of consideration the great advantages to the public in
regaining unobstructed access to the levee and the shipping along the
river front, that will result from the construction of the Elevated Rail.
way, it would seem that the direct benefits to be secured by the railroads
using it would be sufficient to commend the plan to their interested
approval. .
In the case of the Morgan's Company, as regards traffic at their Poy-
dras street depots, the advantages to be gained by them in the use of the
Elevated Railway, and the addition of a second floor to their present area
seem specially prominent. They would gain by its use; [1..] Facility for
hauling trains to and fro between their depots and transfer boats without
delay or danger, such as does not exist at present, and, in the nature of the
case, cannot be otherwise attained; [2.] Standing-room for unbroken trains
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freight platforms, also under cover, in lieu of the present platforms which
are but partially covered, and are separated by several public streets, to
accommodate which their trains must now be broken, while standing in the
depots into sections—the greatest length not exceeding 370 feet; [3] An ad-
dition to their present area of platform for handling and storing freight of
from 66 to 118 per cent, or in effect equivalent to the acquirement of three
additional squares of ground for depot purposes; and [4] An opportunity to
rearrange their system of freight handling, bringing it more within the con-
trol of mechanical apparatus operated by steam or hydraulic power, and
less dependent upon the uncertainties attending a sole reliance upon manual
labor.
Against these undoubted and direct advantages and others less ap-
parent that should result indirectly from the increased convenience afforded
the general public—there is to be charged the cost of the new structures
and machinery proposed, and the running expenses of the lifts or
elevators. -
If the money value of the advantages—to be gained could be as readily -
and accurately estimated as the expense involved in the proposed changes,
we feel assured the balance of money-value, even, to be secured by the Mor-
gan's Company by their adoption would ultimately prove greater than you
have ever yet represented or imagined.
* Similar advantages, we believe will be secured in a greater or less
degree, by all the roads entering this city upon completing connection with
the Elevated Railway, and the cost and difficulty of making such connections
will nowhere be greater than in the case of the Morgan Co.'s Poydras street
depot.
Perhaps, however, only one other road—the Louisville and Nashville—
has freight depots so situated as, for the present, to require the hydraulic
lifts proposed in this case; but, when it is considered that their available
storage-room may be more than doubled by adding another story to their
present depots, and that all others are so situated that convenient access
by rail might be had to both floors of their depots, we believe it will be only
a question of time for such additions to be made by all the roads to
their present facilities, whem once the Elevated Road is completed, and
they are receiving and delivering freight by it at every wharf, and al-
most at the gangways of the shipping.
' ' Of the advantages to result to all the companies by the use of the
Elevated Road in the facility it will afford them for the interchange of
ears, and the dispatch of through freights, it is hardly necessary for us
to speak. It cannot be doubted that hundreds of cars will be trans-
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ferred daily from one road to another by the tracks of the Elevated
Iroad, and that thousands of tons of freight which under the present sys--
tem—or lack of system—are unloaded, stored and re-shipped, with great
cost and delay, will, when your road is in operation, be sent through to
their destination without breaking bulk, and at merely nominal expense.
"If your Company furnishes the motive power for, and controls the
operation of the Railway, we cannot doubt that, with an efficient system for
switching and signaling under central management, the Elevated Railway
"will be able to handle all the traffic to and through this city brought by the
Roads now centering here, and by others yet to come, and will be able to
offer them such cheap rates as will insure their connection and still leave
your Company an ample margin of profit.
- Respectfully submitted:
B. M. HARROD ~ : " - - -
#ENRY B. Richardson, }Chief Engineers.

22 THE NEW ORLEANS ELEWATED EAILWAY COMPANY.,
CITY ORDINANCE, GRANTING FRANCHISE.
OFFICIAL.
MAYokALty or NRw OrlºANs, }
City Hall, 27th March, 1883.
[No. 215, Council Series.]
AN ORDINANCE granting to Thomas L. Airey, J. H. Oglesby, Newton Buckner, Victor
Meyer, Henry Shaw and A. T. Janin, their assigns and successors, certain rights aud
privileges.
Whereas, the only means by which the entire levee space can be allotted to and made use
of by the steamships, steamboats, barge lines and other water craft, and at the same time be
used with greatly increased convenience and facility by the railroads now here and as many
more as can be hereafter built—is by the construction of elevated tracks.
SECTION 1. Now therefore be it ordained, etc., That Thos. L. Airey, J. H. Oglesby,
Newton Buckner, Victor Meyer, Henry Shaw and A. T. Janin, their assigns or successors,
are hereby empowered and anthorized for the term of fifty years, to construct, operate and
maintain an elevated railway for the carriage of freight and passengers, having two main
tracks, with the necessary room for such side tracks, switches and turnouts on said elevated
structure as may be needed, beginning at a point at or near the lower limits of the city and
running thence along or near the river front to the upper limits of the city; thus formihg a
continuous circuit of main tracks along the river front, with such branches, switches, turn-
outs and inclines on said elevated structure as may be necessary to connect the elevated
tracks with the main tracks and the freight and passenger depots of the surface railways;
and that in no case shall it be construed that auy surface privilege is hereby granted beyond
the one of counecting the elevated tracks with the surface tracks, in such manner as may be
approved by the City Surveyor, Commissioner of Public Works and Council of New Orleaus.
SEC. 2. Be it further ordained, etc., That the said Elevated Railway shall be built of
iron, having eighteen (18) feet clear space between all surface rails crossed and girders of
said elevated structure, and that the structure at such places along the front levee, which
may be designated by the City Snrveyor, Commissioner of Public Works, and Chairman of
the Committee on Streets and Landings, shall be made watertight, subject to their appro-
val, and that in no case shall this Elevated Railway Company bave the right or privilege
of collecting fees for the shelter of any article of merchandise which may be placed under
said structure at any time. º
Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, etc., That Thos. L. Airey, J. H. Oglesby, Newton
Buckner, Victor Meyer, Henry Shaw and A. T. Janin, their assigns or successors, may ar-
range for the prompt hauling, transferring and delivering of the cars and trains of all the
surface railways, upon such terms and subject to such restrictions as may be agreed upon
by the parties in interest, and in case of a disagreement, the matter to be settled by arbi-
tration, one of the arbitrators to be appointed by the Elevated Railway Company and the
other by the railroad company disputing. Should these arbitrators disagree, a third to be
appointed by these two and his decision to be final, and furthermore, no surface railways
shall be excluded from the use of the Elevated Railway tracks upon such terms as pro-
vided for above; and the said Elevated Railway Counpany shall have the right to erect.
maintain aud operate such branch elevated tracks as may be necessary to deliver or send
out all passenger or freight trains to the individual railroad depots along its line with the

THE NEW ORLEANS ELEWATED RAILWAY COMPANY. 23
right to arrange for the erection and maintenance of suitable passenger and baggage eleva-
tors at the individual railroad depots on the line of said Elevated road. &
SRC. 4. Be it further ordained, etc., that the work on said Elevated Railway between
Press street and Louisiana avenue shall be commenced within three (3) months from the
date of the passage of this ordinance and continued without cessation until final comple-
tion, which shall be within three (3) years from date of commencement, and the other parts
of this grant within three (3) additional years.
Src. 5. Be it further ordained, ete, That nothing contained in this grant and privilege
to said company is intended to be construed as binding the City of New Orleans, or making
her responsible to any person for any loss, damage or injury which might arise, should the
said company or its assigns be in any manner interfered with or deprived of any of these
rights or privileges from any cause whatsoever, and in case there is any conflict or any in-
jury to any rights or privileges heretofore granted by the city to any person or corporation,
the said company binds itself to hold the city harmless, and undertakes the obligation to
arrange and settle all such conflicts and injuries.
SEC. 6. Be it fusther ordained, etc., That the lines and grades of the structure of this
company are to be directed and established by the City Surveyor, and the positions of said
structure to be established by City Surveyor, Commissioner of Public Works and Chairman
of the Columittee on Streets and Landings, and subject to the approval of the Council.
GENERAL CLAUSES.
SEC. 7. Be it further ordained, etc., That it is well understood.that in case of failure
by the said company to comply with the before mentioned conditions and requirements, and
in case the Commisioner of Public Works, City Surveyor and Chairman of the Committee on
Streets and Landings be dissatisfied with the manner in which the work is being executed,
the said officers shall report the same to the City Council, which body shall have the right to
annul the franchise without putting the company in default, as required by article 1905 of
the Civil Code, and in such event the city shall have the option to take possession without
compensation therefor of any and all works constructed under this ordinance, or order their
removal at the expense of the grantees herein, or their assigns or successors; and in no
event, whether in case of voluntary abandonment or forfeiture decreed by the Council, shall
any indemnity or compensation be paid by the city; and it is well understood that in case
the company shall abandon the work, or not finish the saune in accordance with this ordi-
nance,” the company shall forfeit the works it may have constructed to the city of New Or-
leaus, and all claims it may have for, or in part, of the work done by it up to the date of its
abandonment. The company expressly agreeing and understanding that this condition is
in all things binding, and that the said company, their heirs, legal representatives or as-
signs, shall at no time, in any court of justice, by plea, answer, exception, motion, objection
of any kind, sort or description, or under any circumstances set up, urge, or in any way
allege, plead or claim that the conditions of this ordinance are not in all respects legal,
binding and obligating on the coupany, or its legal representatives or assigns.
SEc. 8. Be it further ordained, etc., That the property and appurtenances of this rail-
way company shall revert to the city of New Orleans at the expiration of the term of its
franchise, namely, fifty years from the date of the passage of this ordinance, on a valuation
to be ascertained by two disinterested persons one to be appointed by the railway company
and one by the city, and in the event of a disagreement as to said valuation between the
two said persons, thus appointed, a third party or unupire shall be appointed by the Judges
of the Civil District Court, the decision thereby had to be final and binding.
SEc. 9. Be it further ordained, etc., That this company shall not be permitted to
sell, lease, alienate or transfer their rights under this ordinance without the permission of
the Council.
SEc. 10. Be it further ordained, etc., That the said company is hereby required to
furnish to the city a good and solvent bond in the sum of $50,000 as a guarantee of
good faith on their part. *
SEc. 11. Be it further ordained, etc., That said Elevated Railway Company, within
thirty days after the promulgation of this ordinance, shall give bond in favor of the city of
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New Orleans, conditioned that if, after the expiration of five years after the promulga-
tion of this ordinance the surface roads now existing have not availed themselves of its
benefits, then the said Elevated Railway Company shall pay to the city of New Orleans,
in such improvements as may be determined, the smna of ($100,000) one hundred thous-
and dollars.
SEc. 12. Be it further ordained, etc., That this ordinance shall take effect from
and after its passage. s - -as º
Adopted by the Council of the City of New Orleans, 20th March, 1883.
M. McNAMARA,
* . Clerk of Council.
Approved, 27th March, 1883,
* ſº W. J. BEHAN,
Mayor.
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C. L. WALKER,
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CHARTER,
STATE OF LOUISIANA, }
PARISH AND CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
Be it known, that on this seventh-day of April, in the year of our Lord one thous-
and eight hundred and eighty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and seventh, before me, Andrew Hero, Jr., a notary public iu.
and for the parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, duly commissioned and qualified,
and in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter named and undersigned, personally
came and appeared the several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed, who declared
that availing themselves of the provisions of the laws of this State relative to the or-
ganization of corporations for works of public improvement and utility, they have con-
tracted and agreed, and do by these presents covenant and agree and bind and obligate
themselves, as well as all such persons as unay hereafter become associated with them, to
form and constitute a corporatiou and body politic in law for the objects and purposes and
under the agreements and stipulations following, to-wit: "
ARTICLE FIRST. *
The name and title of said corporation shall be “THE NEw ORLEANs ELEvated
RAILWAY COMPANY,” and under its said corporate name it shall have power and author-
ity to have and enjoy succession for the full term and period of ninety-nine years from
and after the day and date hereof, to contract, sue and be sued, to make and use a corporate
seal and the same to break or alter at pleasure, to hold, receive, lease, purchase and convey
as well as mortgage and hypothecate under its corporate name property both real and per-
sonal, to name and appoint such managers, directors, officers and agents as the iuterests and
convenience of suid corporation may require, and to make and establish such by-laws, rules
and regulations for the proper management and regulation of the affairs of said Corporation
as may be necessary and proper, and the same to change and alter at pleasure. &
ARTICLE * SECOND.
The domicile of said corporation shall be in the city of New Orleans, State of Louis-
iana, and all citation or other legal process shall be served upon the President of said cor-,
poration, or iu case of his absence, upon the Vice President thereof, or such Director as may
be acting in place of said President.
ARTICLE THIRD.
The objects and purposes for which this corporation is established and the nature of
the business to be carried on by it, are declared and specified to be the construction, working
and maintenance of railroads, and to acquire aud enjoy all the rights and privileges granted
by ordinance No. 215, Council Series, of the Council of the City of New Orleans, being an
ordinance entitled “An ordinance granting to Thomas L. Airey, Joseph H. Oglesby, Newton
Buckner, Victor Meyer, Henry Shaw, and A. T. Janin, their assignees and successors, certain
rights and privileges,” to carry out the provisions thereof, to construct, manage, control and
• operate an elevated railway with sidings, switches, and all useful and necessary appliances,
equipage and edifices, along the levees or near the river front, 9f the City of New Orleans,
and thereby to facilitate the transportation of cars freight and passengers; and to pro-
vide a new means of speedily relieving the levee and public landings of encumbering car-
goes, freight, merchandise aud the like : and to afford facilities to railroads terminating in
said city for moving their cars and transacting their business along said levees and public
landings.

26 THE New obleANs ELEVATED RAILWAY COMPANY.
ARTICLE FOURTH.
The eapital stock of said corporation is hereby fixed at the sum of five million dol-
lars, which shall be divided into or represented by fifty thousand shares of the sum of one
hundred dollars each. Ten per cent. of the amount of each share shall be paid in cash at
the time of subscription, and subsequent payments shall be made in such sums and
at such periods as may be determined upon by the Board of Directors; provided, however,
that no call shall be made for more than ten per cent. at any one time nor oftener than
once in every thirty days. . In case of the failure of any subscriber to pay the installments
demauded on his stock, as required, the Board, of Directors shall have the op-
tion, after thirty days written notice to the delinquent, of forfeiting his stock with all the
amounts previously paid thereon ; and no stockholder shall have the right to vote while in
default for unpaid installments due on his stock.
ARTICLE FIFTH.
The corporate powers of this corporation shall be vested in and exercised by a Board
of Directors couiposed of six stockholders, each of whom shall own in his name, or in that
of a firm whereof he may be member, at least ten (10) shares of the capital stock of said
company. Said board, however, may be increased to twenty or less in number at the first
election for directors held next after such increase shall have been ordered by resolution of
the then existing board; and in case of any increase being ordered, the resolution so or-
dering may provide for a rotation in office, with terms of one, two and three years, and said
resolution shall be published with the notice of the election next to be held. Said directors
shall be elected annually on the first Monday in September in each year, and all such elec-
tions shall be by ballot and conducted at the office of said corporation under the superin-
tendence of three commissioners, to be appointed by the Board of Directors, of which elec-
tion ten days prior notice shall be given in one of the daily newspapers published in the
city of New Orleans; and the directors then elected shall serve until their successors shall
have been elected. A majority of the votes slall elect, and each share of stock shall be en-
titled to one vote, either in person or by proxy. A failure to elect members on the day re-
quired shall not dissolve the corporation, but the Board of Directors shall continue to hold
their office, and another election shall be held within fifteen days thereafter and ten day's
prior notice thereof given in one of the daily newspapers published in the city of New Or-
leans. Any vacancy occurring in said board from any cause whatever shall be filled by
election by the remaining directors. Four directors shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, aud said Board of Directors, at their first meeting in each year,
shall elect out of their own number a President and Vice-President, and shall appoint from
time to time such officers, clerks, managers or other agents as may be deemed necesssary for
the business and purposes of said corporation, and dismiss the same at pleasure; and shall
have full power and authority to make and establish, as well as change or amend and alter
all by-laws, rules and regulations, for the support and management of the affairs and busi-
ness of said corporation; and shall have also full power to borrow money, execute luort-
gages, issue bonds, make contracts and do all things necessary and proper to carry out the
purposes and objects of this corporation, and to have power generally to do all things and
act in all matters pertinent to said object aud purposes, or which are or may be permitted
by the laws applicable to similar corporations; and shall also have power to contract for,
receive and exercise all the rights and privileges relating to the oljects and purposes of this
corporation,and to fix the terms and conditions upon and under which this corporation shall
succeed all such rights and privileges; and shall also have power to issue and deliver full
paid shares of the stock or the bonds of this corporation, at not less than par in payment for
labor done, or money or rights or property actually received.
ARTICLE SIXTH.
Whenever this corporation is dissolved, either by limitation or from any other cause,
its affairs shall be liquidated under the superintendence of three stockholders, to be appoint-
ed for that purpose at a general meeting of the stockholders convened after thirty days'
prior notice, and with the asscnt of a majority in amount of the capital stock; said commis-
hioners shall remain in office until the affairs of said corporation shall have been fully li-
quidated, and in case of the death of one or more of said commissioners, the survivor
or survivors shall contiuue to act.

THE NIEW ORLEANS ELEWATED RAILWAY COMPANY. 27
ARTICLE SEVENTH.
This act of incorporation may be changed, modified or altered or said corporation
may be disolved with the assent of a majority in amount of the capital stock thereof,
at any general meeting of the stockholders of said corporation, convened for such pur-
pose after thirty days’ previous notice of such meeting shall have been published in one
of the daily newspapers of the city of New Orleans. and such changes as may be made
in reference to an increase of its capital stock, shall require forty days’ prior notice by
Hails to each stockholder in addition to such advertisement.
ARTICLE EIGHTH.
No stockholder shall ever be held liable or responsible for the contracts or faults of
said corporation in any further sum than the unpaid balance due on the shares of stock
owned by him, nor shall any mere informality in organization have the effect of rendering
this charter null or of exposing a stockholder to any liability beyond the amount of his
stock.
ARTICLE NINTH.
Messrs. Joseph H. Oglesby, Newton Buckner, Victor Meyer, Thomas L. Airey, Alex-
ander T. Janin aud Henry Shaw, with said Henry Shaw as President, shall constitute the
first Board of Directors of this corporation, and shall continue iu office until the next
annual electiou for directors, or until their successors shall have been elected and iustalled.
Thus done and passed in my office, in New Orleans, aforesaid, in the presence of Paul
A. Ory and Sosthene Theriot, Jr., witnesses, both of this city, who hereunto sign their names
with the parties and me, the said notary, the day and date aforesaid.
Original signed : -
J. H. OGLESBY,
VICTOR MEYER,
HENRY SHAW, &
A. T. JANIN,
p. p. Thos. L. Airey.
THOS. L. AIREY,
N. BUCKNER,
SAM'L P. BLANC,
P. A. ORY,
S. THERIOT, Jr.,
ANDREW HERO, Jr.,
Notary Public.
*
I, the undersigned, Recorder of Mortgages in and for the parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing act of incorporation of the New
Orleans Elevated Railway Company was this day duly recordod in my office, in book No. 226
folio 376.
New Orleans, April 7th, 1883.
e-A-s-s
3 Seal H . [Signed] GEO. GUINAULT,
~~~ Deputy Recorder.
* I, Andrew Hero, Jr., a duly commissioned and qualified notary public, in and for the
parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, do hereby certify the above and foregoing to be a true
aud correct copy of the original charter or act of incorporation of “The New Orleans
Elevated Railway Company,” as also of the certificate of the Recorder of Mortgages of this
parish thereto attached, on file and of record in my notarial archives.
In faith whereof I hereunto set my hand and official seal at New Orleans, La., this
21st day of April, A. D. 1883.
3. A. HERO, Jr., Notary Public.
17 Commercial Place, New Orleans.
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